As announced, we began the task of framing out the foundation, but we have to apologize as we didn’t take nearly as many pictures as we should have. It turned out that the task of framing out a concrete base is not nearly as easy as one would think. Our ground is quite slanted and […]

First thing this morning we checked out the concrete mixer we found in our cellar. It is an electric model that is looking rather aged on the outside, but the mixing bowl (no idea if that is really the name for it is nice and clean. The mixer is electric and after finding the right […]

Well, the first of many trips to the home improvement store is behind us. We haven’t gotten nearly as far as we wanted to but still are on track. The bad news, we need a lot more ready mixed concrete than anticipated. We had figured about 10 bags would be enough but when we gave […]

We’re back from our short vacation in Switzerland. All in all, Ayla did great and we were really happy that she was so relaxed during the trip. She slept during a major portion of the ride home and has slept a lot the few hours we have been home which we expected after all the […]

We’ve been on vacation for the last 3 1/2 days and I think all of us are happy to be home. We went to Locarno, Switzerland, to do some climbing, one of our other passions aside from the farm. It was nice to take some time away but at the same time we were also […]